Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-10
The County Commissioners and Their

ray.
Our Republican friend of the SIGNAL i:
bound to show his perverseness mislead his
honest readers, and thereby do an iniustice
to some of our county officials. We have
once before published the law which gives
the County Commissioners mileage and
expenses, but as our friend defes US to publish
it, and wants to go so far as to bet that there
is no such law, we give it again. The law is
so plain that any one who rups can read, and
understand. The law originally was passed
by Republican Legislature, on April Is,
1882, was revised May 4, 1885, and also April
8, 1886. The law as it now stands is the one
enacted April sth, 1886, and is as follows
complete
SEC. S91. Each county commissioner
shall be allowed three dollars for each day
that he is employed in his official duties, and
five cents per mile for his necessary travel
for each regular or called session, not exceed
ing one session each month, or twelve in any
one year, and five cents per mile when travel
ing within their respective counties on Of
fetal business, to be paid out of the county
treasury on the warrant of the county audi
tor, except in counties in which, by the last
al NChouSs thO
one hundred and ninety five thousand or up
wards, and in counties in which, by the last
federal census, the population amounted to
not more than seventy-nine thousand nor
less than sixty-seven thousand, in which
counties such commissioners shall be en-
titled to receive salary at the rate of (S2,-
OOO) two thousand dollars per annum, and
counties having by the last federal census
population of eighty-six thousand seven
hundred and ninety-seven, and no more,
shall have salary at the rate of twelve hun
dred dollars per annum each and necessary
travelling expenses when travelling outside of
the county on official business. Each com
missioner in all other counties except those
having, by the last federal census, a popula-
ton OF one hundred and ndninety-fve thousand
or upwards, and those having by the last
federal census population of eighty-six
thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven
(o6, IT'D, and no more, for his services, when
necessarily engaged in attending to the
business of the board, other than in attend
ing to the business of the county pertaining
to his office under the direction of the board,
other than in attending regular or called
sessions of the board, and when necessary to
travel on official business out of his county,
shall be allowed in addition to his compensa-
ton and mileage as hereinbefore provided,
any other reasonable and necessary expense
actually paid in the discharge of his official
duty, and each commissioner shall present
an ltemized statement of his account flor
perdiem, mileage, services and expenses as
aforesaid, which, before it is allowed by
full board, shall be certified to by the pros
ecuting attorney of the county, and approved
by the probate judge thereof.
ALI of these laws gave the Commissioners
mileage, and were amended probably to
make it more clear in regard to expenses.
While the statute gives the Commissioners
pay for their legitimate expenses, while out
upon duty for the county, our Commissioners
never made charge outside of transporta-
ton and mileage. This their itemized bills
will show, and they are open to the inspection
of any one. This the Republican editor
knows, or should know, but where ignorance
is bliss It's folly to be wise.